The date was May 28. In Mokhra village in Rohtak district of Haryana, village residents, khap leaders and farmers had gathered in an ancient kothi. As they watched the visuals of their “daughters” being dragged and stomped upon by Delhi Police in the national capital on a loop on their mobile phones, they seethed with anger. Words like “dictatorship”, “tanashahi” (Fascism), “nindaniya” (condemnable) and “atyachar” (atrocity) reverberated the walls of the kothi.